Author Archives: The Independent Ear

Had a recent conversation with an anonymous source very close to such information and here’s a further take on the subject of who shot Miles Davis following that fateful (see below) gig at the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn. Make of … Continue reading →

Willard Jenkins, The Independent Ear, NOW TWEETING AT @indyear

From 1965-1985 one of the New York metro area’s hotspots for live jazz was the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn – the Bedford-Stuyvesant community to be exact. Sometimes I wonder if perhaps Brooklyn should be labeled the Second City instead of … Continue reading →

May 4, 2005 Jazz is dead! It died that day around 3pm… Surviving are 1,7 million musicians who play Jazz and 20 million jazz fans throughout the world, 300 million recordings, and 500,000 trombonists without beepers. – Producer-saxophonist Bob Belden

The 7th annual DC Jazz Festival, under the prescient guidance of Charlie Fishman and Sunny Sumter (who though still a young woman, insists she has “retired” as a jazz vocalist, but we still hold out hope…) closed last Monday evening … Continue reading →